Category Archives: Japan skiing

The ten most useful phrases for travelling in Japan is highly debatable but let’s face it. You’re not here for a conference or to meet the Emperor. Quite simply you’ll be sliding around on snow, eating and drinking your...

If it’s your first time to Japan you might find things very different to your home country. In Japan, eating, traveling or bathing all come with particular etiquette centring around hygiene and courtesy towards others. Don’t get too stressed...

So many tips let’s call this PART ONE!!! Don’t laugh! Affordable ski holidays are possible. With a little planning and some super-sleuthing, family ski trips can be easy-peasy Japanesey. If you don’t have time or wouldn’t know where to...

With many overseas family snow trips under my belt, I can safely claim to be a holiday preparation-ninja. Due to plenty of trial and error, believe me when I say preparations errors suck and they impact everyone. Forgetting the...

Recommending travel to people is not easy because different factors are important to everyone. One person’s adventure is another person’s logistical nightmare. Train travel is do-able, the question is whether you WANT to do it. I’ll spell a few...

Hitting Myoko -family style Myoko Kogen, not somewhere internationally famous, a network of snow resorts on mainland Japan on the Niigata prefecture side of the Niigata-Nagano border. Surrounded by better known snow...

Niseko, somewhere I’d heard a lot about. Somewhere I was hesitant to take small children, somewhere I was glad to go to. Dispelling the myths and the hype and focusing on all the important stuff. GETTING HERE My initial...